Kwon, Jin-Ho, Choi, Min-Hyun and Shin, Seung-Hun of the Department of Industrial and Interaction Design Win Red Dot Design Award 'Best of the Best'
YU Students Swept 13 awards in 5 international design contests
[Nov 27, 2013]

 YU (President Noh, Seok Kyun) students are sweeping the international design contests.

 Kwon, Jin-Ho (26), Choi, Min-Hyun (26) and Shin, Seung-Hun (25), all seniors of the YU Department of Industrial and Interaction Design won the 'Red Dot: Best of the Best' in the 2013 Red Dot Design Award. The 'Design Concept' category that they participated in was competed for by 4,394 works from 56 countries.

 The Red Dot Design Award is one of the world's top 3 design contests and winning pieces are put on display in the Red Dot Design Museum for international exhibitions.

 Their work was titled 'Observer' and it had innovative design focusing on enhancing usability for the multicopter robot. A multicopter robot is an aerial vehicle with rotating blades and are basically small helicopters with cameras to take aerial photos.

 Though it is widely used today for creating aerial photography and videos, they focused on the fact that its use is not widespread among the general public, and thus set their design concept on enhancing the usability of multicopters. Taking into account that it is difficult for extreme sports athletes such as snowboards, rock climbing and mountain biking to take photos or videos of themselves, they designed a wristwatch-style controller and multicopter so that sports lovers could use them.

 Kwon, Jin-Ho said, "Lots of people just think about the outward appearance when thinking about design," adding, "I believe that design is not just changing the shell, but giving new values," as he explained his philosophy on design.

 Shin, Seung-Hun was awarded not only at the Red Dot Design Award, but also the IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) and International Forum Design Awards (iF Design Awards), thus hitting a Grand Slam in the world's top 3 international design contests in 2013 alone. Furthermore, he won the bronze medal at the Pin Up Concept Awards hosted by the Korea Association of Industrial Designers, as well as the bronze at the Spark Design Awards that was announced just recently on November 3. Thus, he was awarded at all of the 5 international design contests this year.

 Shin, who was awarded at 5 international contests, said, "It is important to visually express ideas as much as coming up with creative ideas." He also added, "I want to study the 3D modeling sector that embodies ideas and create my own field of expertise in the design sector."

 Meanwhile, Kwon, Jin-hyeon and Choi, Min-Hyun, who teamed up for the Red Dot Design Award, were also awarded at the iF Design Awards, Pin Up Concept Awards and Spark Design Awards. Thus, students at the YU Department of Industrial and Interaction Design won 13 awards in 5 international design contests just this year, making the YU Department of Industrial and Interaction Design be recognized worldwide.